Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-08-22
LOCAL BREynIEs.

LOCAL BREfI1. ES.
Harrigans comedy company 1e.t Tor
Reno yesterday noon.
An adjourned meeting of the Boom
Fund" Committee will be held this even.
ing.
1t is expected that a special train of fruit
| will be sent East from this city every day
this week.
The steamer Clara Belle was towed across
the river Saturday and laid up, resting on
a sandbar.
| The City Library closes to-day for a gen.
eral cleaning up and rearranging and will
reopen September Sd.
| The steamers San Joaquin, Nos. . and t,
left for San Francisco yesterday, towing
five barges loaded with grain-over 10000
| sacks
| The painters are busily engaged on the
| exterior of the State exposition building,
and they have changed its appearance al
ready very materially.
Orrin Hickok's stable of trotters, includ-
| ing some fine-iooking green ones, arrived
| from the East by yesterdays express train,
| en- route to San Francisco.
Fire Commissioner Conran, who has
been sick so long, is said to be lying in a
very dAu Will pIOSDtCl
that he will not long survive.
Turton & Knox advertise for laborers TO
work on the Woodland and Lake County
Railroad, in Capay Valley. Shovelers will
be paid $50 and teamsters $50 per month
and board.
Deputy Coroner Clark held an inquest
last Saturday upon the body of the man
found few days ago near Guthrie's Sta
ton but there was no evidence to disclose
his identity.
Warden Shirly, of the San Quentin
State Prison. paid into the State Treasury
Saturday, s. ,031 Il, received from the sale
of jute belonging to the revolving fund, and
$S,561, other receipts.
Two members of the chain-gang made
break for liberty while at work at the |
County Hospital Saturday but did not en-
joy their liberty long. They will doubt
less be punished for their attempt.
The front doors of the saloon on the |
southwest corner of l. and Seventh streets |
were forced open by burglar some time
before daylight Saturday morning and the |
place was robbed of a quantity of cigars.
Coon hunting is all the rage in Gait |
John Quiggle has killed over twenty in the |
past few weeks with his hounds. The hunt |
ing is done at night and quite number of |
tLC yOuiiS pVOpiC VI WV II 50 Ohl ~ sec tiC |
sport.
About twenty members of the Stockton |
Verein-Eintracht came over to this city |
yesterday and spent the day visiting their |
brothers of the Order in this city. The |
latter, by the way of entertainment, gave
them the best they had, and sent them |
home by the p NJ train in high spirits.
Yesterday afternoon as one Of the base |
ball trains was going out to Snowflake Park |
boy about 10 years old, who was stand |
ing on the steps of car, fell off as the |
train started up from Eighteenth street, |
and tumbled through the trestlework be- |
meath the track, but escaped severe injury. |
On Saturday w. H. Dixon, an orchardist |
who resides on the Costumes river, |
brought in a lot of Crawford peaches |
grown on his place, which for size, quality |
and flavor shows that that portion of Sac |
ramento county is equal to any in the |
State for successfully growing that class of |
fruit.
Messrs. Anderson and Littler, members |
of the Pacific Railway Commission, &C
companied by attaches of the Board, came |
up from San Francisco by the Portland ex- |
press Saturday evening en- route for Port |
land and northern points. Commissioner !
Pattison left for his home in Pennsylvania [
few days ago by overland train.
The express train from the East |
came through in two sections yes
ierday morning. The first section was |
an hour and thirty-five minutes late, |
having lost time because of its heavy |
load, and being detained by freight train |
having jumped cars off the rails at Shady |
Run. The second section arrived about an |
hour behind the first.
AS the circus will undoubtedly call MANY I
families from their homes this afternoon |
and evening, it will be well to remember |
that there are thieves who follow circuses |
about the country for the purpose of COM |
hitting burglaries. Occasionally some of |
these gentry make an honest dollar by |
passing counterfeit money, principally !
limitations of halves and quarters.
Kate Dawson, who was recently con- |
yicted in the Police Court of vagrancy and |
sentenced to fifty days in the County Jail, |
the commitment being withheld, however, |
to give her an opportunity TO carry out her |
promise to reform, was reported to the po- |
lice Saturday as having forgotten her good |
resolutions, and in that event she will |
doubtless have to serve out her term.
The projectors of the irrigation scheme |
for Gait and vicinity held meeting last |
Tuesday for the purpose of organizing a |
joint-stock company. Judge Buckley, of |
Stockton, was present and attended to the |
legal points connected with the organZa- |
ton. The preliminary surveys for the pro-
posed system of irrigation have been made |
and it is expected that at the next meeting |
of the Board the full particulars of the |
plan of operation will be made public.
dispatch from San Diego dated the
Goth inst, says: "B. F. Pritchard, the no
torious hay fork swindler, who SO mystic
riouslv disappeared recently, while in the |
hands of supposed detectives, has been |
heard from at Ensenada. He writes from
there to local paper which will publish
his statement tomorrow, to the effect that
these alleged detectives agreed to let him
go for 81, 800, and he accepted, going with |
them to get the money, when he managed |
to escape and is now in Ensenada for his
health"
The average Signal Service temperature
Saturday was 7So, being 50 warmer than
the normal for that day. The highest and
lowest temperature was 500 and $50, with
gentle and variable winds, mostly from the
north weather clear to hay. The aver
age temperature yesterday was SO, being
10 warmer than the normal for that day.
The highest and lowest temperature was
800 and 62o with gentle and variable winds,
mostly from the north weather clear to
hazy. This is only six days this month
on which the mean temperature was higher
than the average, while yesterday was the
fourth day of the present hot spell.